unlovely that's the case we go to the grand imperial college to talk west coast coromandel you can a little it's mostly civility to go. read this and the colonel was her child as a treat. today's top stories and the review of the week from r.t. . task of recovery rescuers are preparing to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river where it sank in a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nine. relatives and investigators are all looking for answers as to why the ship sunk so fast i'll bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. the apologies keep coming and so do the arrests rupert murdoch once again says sorry for the phone hacking by one of his british papers as his former c.e.o. in the u.k. is detained by police. banking on change libyan rebels now have full

diplomatic recognition from washington and with access to colonel gadhafi has assets frozen in the u.s. . and intercontinental cash crunch as america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro. you're watching the weekly on r.t. with the main headlines of the past week and the latest developments it's been described as the biggest disaster in russia's modern history in the space of just three minutes a pleasure cruiser with two hundred eight people on board went down in the volga river taking over half of its passengers with it and one hundred thirty people were killed many of them children a week later the operation to raise the ship from the bottom is underway as tom barton now reports. the bulgaria is still under the water at the moment behind me

you can probably see the tops of two enormous cranes that have been brought up from further downstream and then attached to them or is it an enormous cable that goes down and is threaded underneath the ship and that cable is going to be used first of all at the moment divers and the crane teams are in the process of trying to right to the boat here it was leaned on its left side and then once they've righted it they'll be able to start to lift it up a lot of the complications that divers are facing are do to the way under speed that the ship sank. firstly the fact that it's on its left side will mean that divers will have to go under that left side as it's righted first of all to check that the ship is structurally sound to be ready to be raised and also to try and look for some of the fifteen bodies which are still to be accounted for which still haven't been found then once they start to raise the ship divers are going to have to first of all try and find essentially the hole that let in all the water and

some of the ship once they have found out builds want to seal that hole and all the other gaps on the ship so that once it's partially raised will be able to pump out the water from the ship making it light enough to raise it more easily a very complex operation visibility in the water is very poor for the divers there's a lot of algae in the water at this time and so it's proving to be a drawn out process but one that is crucial for all those people waiting for answers a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played. they are the flowers and candles a testament to the children of those who drowned in the pleasure boat to bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with a new i'm sure was very kind go and was always ready to help. ships. sank in just

three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror didn't is that people were basically buried alive in anti-matter . they managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue hand she swallowed too much water so when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son in the strong current oil slick had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the d.j. for the disco bottom deck he only just managed to escape. i remember clearly the water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw two in the cellar started pushing people out through it at that moment up on the surface and then i saw the board was

already underwater. over half the bulgarian two hundred make passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made herself meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil field that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up. the divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families to. straught in those few terrible minutes

but they've also been working on the question the cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an aging dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses and people connected with the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management who forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven ship had neede been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them port authorities say they were lied to the ship was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people but was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty or more tales of bound including a broken engine attic tricity generators failing so that no s.o.s.

signal or tunnel instructions could be issues and blocked emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests being made to the bulgarian single and more controversially into watching ships which reached the scene before the hour didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead children pictures of a memorable photos the way you have this is going to get you and you will hold the passengers will show you there were about seventeen people on a raft and many have cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the good passers by in a different direction towards. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for instance but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place where a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go. it was one of russia's worst and most of the shipping

disasters from bottom point. the captain of a ship who helped rescue seventy seven people from the sinking has been describing the horrific disaster scene in an interview with r.t. and you can see it in full in about twenty minutes from now or find it online right now on our website article comes all the latest reports of the intense search and recovery operations since the tragedy happened and you can keep up to date there and while you're online remember to check out our you tube channel for all our videos of the salvage commission. is.

the former c.e.o. of rupert murdoch's british newspaper operation has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and bribery rebecca brooks is the tenth person to be detained in connection with the scandal that's engulfed the now defunct news of the world well for more on these latest developments let's now talk to annie machon she's a former intelligence officer for m i five joining us there in london so what's your reaction to this arrest bearing in mind that rebecca brooks is so close to the prime minister and other high level politicians. well absolutely she is very unusual to have someone this close to the heart the heart of power in the u.k. being arrested but i suppose based on previous factual evidence around this case it would be unavoidable for the police not to rest on how you said that of course it is a very long journey from arrest to being charged to being put on trial and convicted

so i suppose i'd be more surprised if she were charging if this does proceed towards a legal hearing i have to say that i think is the timing of this arrest is very interesting because it's highly highly unusual for someone to be a prearranged arrest to turn themselves into a police station and go through the rest recess on a sunday and of course it is just two days before she was due to appear before a parliamentary committee so now it has got to sort of get out of jail free card i can't possibly talk about this it is subject to legal proceedings so in a way they are specified as likely suspicious turn of mind one might think that the police taking this step at this stage. allowing her little wriggle room i shouldn't have to say too much and perhaps also have to say too much about her links with the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing interesting that word wriggled out about the police themselves are very revealing here and assistant editor of the guardian's a very has been saying that he believes this arrest is an attempt by the police to actually deflect attention away from themselves. well quite possibly yes i mean

they've the amount of information that has emerged into the linkage between news international and the police i mean it's amazing the focus has tended to be on the journalists themselves and not on the allegedly corrupt police officers that have been receiving money to provide protective information and of course it's not just about phone hacking scandal there are other practices their peers have been implicated in such as the technique of painting where you triangulate some of the location using their mobile phones now the only people who really have access to that sort of information would be vetted police officers working for counterterrorism branch of the special province or potentially of course this is so who where and when all this was going on is a very interesting question but it does show that there's a sort of endemic corruption and a failure of accountability and oversight is well within the police force so therefore if the police. as you say are culpable in all of this in these practices and also going on they failed to properly investigate this in the past do you believe that this investigation is carried out indeed there are talks of

investigations of the police themselves though do you think that these investigations part of the police themselves will have any effect i mean are you hopeful that it will be done in the proper proper way. i think one has to remain hopeful and optimistic in a democracy but i don't really need to bring in someone from a different force you can have the guard to better themselves is the quote of god god so i think there is an issue here and it needs to be done incredibly carefully and incredibly transparently in order to gain trust but there will be pressure of course because there's been such a media storm around this issue for a proper investigation into into this and i think it's well it's revealed the dark corners information establishment it's the sort of. trickle down corruption almost because we have a sort of hierarchy of intelligence in this country where you have the official spy agencies like i five and i six and here with very little need for oversight then you have the secret police and police forces which have a slightly more insight is we have a mercenary intelligence service is this why you give companies like role diligence

to egypt which are pretty much unaccountable and then of course you have the private investigators who use have been doing the bulk of the work for the journalists and i think this is this a trickle down effect of secrecy and lack of accountability and attention corruption that so pervades every layer of this intelligence infrastructure in this country and i really do think we need to sweep out the audience tables and put the whole of the house in order not to change the culture of cover up and getting away with it but is it not justifiable if these private investigators are working for journalists for newspapers and it is in the public interest and boy should government agencies be able to do all this sort of spying and hacking into phones and not those investigators who are doing it in the public's interest. well that's a very good question and it's funny that there was so much righteous indignation from the m.p.'s about this because although they could potentially have been the targets whereas they don't seem to have the same sort of right to them to begin

diggnation about mistakes made by the spies and their official bugging of operations there was of course recently the official annual report by the interception commission of so-called penalty and he said that in life i've made one thousand and sixty one mistakes. in their applications to the home secretary for bugging an insect's information in the last year i mean this just went under the radar you know there was no outcry in the press there's no outcry from the m.p.'s and yes i think this is actually much more serious because of course you have the spies aggressively raising people's privacy and investigating them there does need to be needed for oversight so. as i said it was a systemic lack of accountability and attention a systemic corruption i mean it's a house in order from the top down on a very interesting here we have to say thanks so much for joining us live there in london former intelligence officer thank you very much for. well still ahead this hour worries about debt default weeks out and why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial nightmare and what it might do to try to avoid it. add

to read but square a four wheeled frenzy is high speed forward on super cars screeched through the center of moscow. a new round of nato airstrikes rattle the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli is kind of gadhafi valid never to leave his country in the face of assaults on the alliance and the rebels this comes after the opposition became the legitimate authority in the country in the eyes of more nations and us more than thirty other states recognize them out of hypnotic meeting on friday saying they would deal with them until an interim government is in place recognition by the contact group and it also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars that will taffy's frozen assets in u.s. banks but it will commentator ted rall says the move is a radical shift from the international stamp. the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to

a regime that is not in the capital that isn't in power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one thousand nine hundred sixty two thousand and one to civil conflict there between the taleban in the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul into a diplomatic relations with the last even though the taleban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing to preserve our situation i mean if the u.s. knows who these people are out there not see and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihadi easy and even around benghazi so it's realistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. isn't easy it should be skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands and really. the high level

recognition of the rebels may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended with heavy casualties among the opposition as daniel bushell reports it's thought that france is now trying the talking tactic with the given regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to gadhafi. books is like rag will destroy the reporter lives there off the wrong and gets the mills the surprise was. french foreign minister should pay both did falls with libya in quotes days all weeks it was into a fourth month the final round in sides because sarkozy with his western allies seen short little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for nato for the whole west paris

even admits all the libya's rebels will return some somalia went to libya for training within the last two or three years just talking about it we have the fly record and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned but in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un vote on foreign intervention if you could call dream. well by leading it in a good person. giving. none of the. witnesses they took will be go of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians fraud's categorically ruled out saying we rolled troops but expose predict is the only way down to three libyan deadlock the

moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of cheap italy admits invaded libya was of mistake rocher up stay. with the balkans once you bring havoc in libya which plays the ability to see child support so you love rock with lloyd lee diplomat she wrote really easy to grow old familiar with elections just more in months away sako advisers said a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president so because these are jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring which is turning into a marathon the new bush will see paris. venezuelan president hugo chavez is back in cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy transferred some powers to

his ministers during his absence but the opposition calls for a temporary handover of all presidential authority analysts say that chavez's health problems may have serious consequences both for his country and beyond. the problem here being that he's regina council a lot of internal and external opposition adversaries notably funded and supported politically economically and eventually to militarily baby united states of america and the united states is clearly bend making its rejean change policies which we are seeing now in north africa and in the middle east bring them all to latin america show from i'm speaking from one of those in argentina i am particularly concerned that hugo chavez's health problems will debilitate will weaken the present government in israel and be seen as an opportunity by the united states or rather by the global power elite upper range from the united states to promote change in venezuela and if it starts in venice lou that it will no doubt spread to

other countries notably libya and perhaps even arjun's you know time is running out for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring bet the deadline to lift the nation's fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling is looming ever closer as lawmakers struggle to find a compromise present a bomber is urging democrats and republicans to ignore their differences to avert armageddon leading credit rating agencies say there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively economist dr roger von hand there says the disagreement on capitol hill is interfering with attempts to reach a solution. there's a personality conflict between the majority leader and the president which is quite unique and this has been taken into the public avenue of discussion once that happens and trust is lost between the leaders it's far more difficult to secure an agreement behind the scenes if you cut spending you're going to also impede economic growth because the government is one of the largest employers if you bring

troops home and stop the wars you also have a problem with employment as the servicemen and women come home these are classic economic problems what's required in the u.s. is a drastic program of infrastructure development and public jobs to guarantee wages and non interest loans for average americans italy defaults for instance in europe it will be impossible for northern europe to bail out italy that will take us over if the dollar significantly loses value when the u.s. is unable to help europe that will in turn take the u.s. down the japanese no more have do not have sufficient liquidity to help this time around as they did in two thousand and eight the euro is intrinsically weak one is not a competitor for the dollar the ruble stands to be fairly stable given russia standing as a major energy producer and natural resource drying on the world scene so the ruble should remain relatively stable the dollar however has nothing to go down against

except frank and if you look at the dollar and the franc that monetary relationship is an all time low and that pretends trouble for the future the best two currencies probably are the norwegian krone in the franc at this point gold is over traded and as we saw in two thousand and eight are going to be a paradoxical drop in the price of gold during a market market crisis breaking on gold is a highly risky proposition. things are a little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the euro zone heading into oblivion roams approved a tough seventy billion euro cut package to avoid a death wipeout it's the euro zone's third largest economy could prove too big for its neighbors to bail meanwhile eight out of ninety eight european banks have failed stress tests to see if they could survive another financial crisis the natural right of patrick young says the italian people's response to the budget cuts will echo what's happening in greece. there will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and that is

that greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nuclei expect almost everybody is going to end up on strike and it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip is through is perhaps because we do have this long lead in time until the cuts really start to make an impact in two thousand and thirteen but i think the problem is in the meantime a large amount of the sort of the leftist opposition in italy for seen a fact that silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direct school reason are well and he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think that he's going to be finding it very difficult to hold his government together there are big problems in western europe they haven still be here definitely to the east everyone a lot of fortunately expect further surprises because the epidemic of contagion seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with it. tonight have a quick look at some other stories from around the world in our world update this

u.s. led coalition started handing over the fall of some of afghanistan's territories to local security forces and central bummy in the region has become the first of seven m. that's to happen ahead of the end of the nato campaign operations in a country of twenty fourteen senior ministers and foreign ambassadors not the by visiting a province which remained relatively peaceful be near decade long occupation of afghanistan. egypt's prime minister has begun a major cabinet reshuffle after public protest in mali political reform again flared up in the country the foreign minister has resigned while two new deputy prime ministers have been appointed interim pm has been forced to make changes after widespread anger that little appears to have changed at all since president mubarak was ousted. the first humanitarian delivery for somalia's drought victims as arrived just over a week since the aid the country was nothing is the most insurgence which grew

large parts of somalia imposed restrictions on foreign aid two years ago calling an anti muslim change after more than ten million people became affected by the food prices as a result of east africa's worst drought in decades. several streets were impossible on sunday afternoon but not because of the the tourist traffic jams here but they were sealed off temporarily become the realm of the fast and the furious and a four wheeled frenzy of the annual moscow city racing show drivers were pushing the pedal to the metal and out doing each other tv's top gear team with her to kick it all rather push it off as they sent this on plunging seventy meters at the end of a bungee rope and yes there was someone inside the female member of the audience who was thankfully well strapped in both woman and machine emerged unscathed than even the heavy rain couldn't stop for new ones cars from speeding past the kremlin sort of rehearsal for the f one grow on trees which russia will host in three years time

. just ahead here interview with the ship captain who helped rescue all the survivors from the volga river tragedy that will be off the headlines in just a few moments from now don't go away stay with us life.

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